Abraham Lincoln Quotes

I have seen your despatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold on with a bull-dog gripe, and chew & choke, as much as possible.

Abraham Lincoln

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• Despatch

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• If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you're gonna make something that nobody can relate to.

  

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• Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.

  

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• I love snacks, but I'm kind of growing out of them. I'm getting into fruit and Clif Bars.

  

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• In this media-drenched, multitasking, always-on age, many of us have forgotten how to unplug and immerse ourselves completely in the moment. We have forgotten how to slow down. Not surprisingly, this fast-forward culture is taking a toll on everything from our diet and health to our work and the environment.

  

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• When I understand this liability as a trade-off for my strengths, something new and liberating arises within me. I no longer want to have my liability 'fixed'-by learning how to dance solo, for example, when no one wants to dance with me-for to do that would be to compromise or even destroy my gift.

  

  Parker Palmer
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• I’ve protected it the Nirvana catalogue from everything from Kentucky Fried Chicken commercials to movies about board games. We’ve been offered $6 million for 18 seconds of one Nirvana song and I turned it down.

  

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• We had a mission at PayPal - which was to create a new financial system, a new world currency, and we failed. We were a financial success, but we didn't succeed at the purpose of our company.

  

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• 'Hurt Village' is based on a real housing project in Memphis, about three minutes away from the Lorraine Hotel where Dr. King was assassinated, so in my work I'm focusing on a very specific area in Memphis. I see 'Hurt Village' as a natural extension of 'The Mountaintop.'

  

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• The legacy of Steve Jobs and the strength of Steve Jobs is that he established a company that's clearly firing on all cylinders and clicking very well.

  

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• My parents were lovers of books, and they raised us in a manner that viewed freedom and subversion as indispensable.

  

  Leila Slimani
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• It's no more of that 12 bar ditty wavy hair in the breeze platform boots flap your flare nonsense. It's not a packaged image of third-rate idiots. It's not a pose. We just do our stuff. Hate it as it usually is, you know I was very shocked by the reviews of the last album. I believe none of them. They liked us for the wrong reasons, trendy reasons.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Believe
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• Let the radiance of my enthusiasms envelop the poor courtyard and the bare classroom. Let my heart be a stronger column and my goodwill purer gold than the columns and gold of rich schools.

  

  Gabriela Mistral
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• He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.

  

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• The only women who don't believe that sexual harassment is a real problem in this country are women who have never been in the workplace.

  

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• If any chef ever tells you they're not inspired equally by the truck-stop barbecue as they are by the four-star Michelin restaurant they are lying.

  

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• Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.

  

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• Most of us suffer from a kind of myopia. We see only the things that fit in with our beliefs about the world.

  

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• Be a little kinder than you have to.

  

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• When I'm performing, sometimes a lyric will touch on my personal life, and it can be difficult to sing. For instance, when I sing 'How I Love You,' I'll choke up.

  

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• It is only to the finest natures that age gives an added beauty and distinction; for the most persistent self has then worked its way to the surface, having modified the expression, and to some extent, the features, to its own likeness.

  

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• I love Southeast Asia. As a child, I lived in that part of the world. My first time in Burma was in 1958 with my parents.

  

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• As a farmer, you learn quick: You don't get anything that you don't work hard for.

  

  Evan Thomas
  • Learn
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• I have seen your despatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold on with a bull-dog gripe, and chew & choke, as much as possible.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Willing
  • Choke
  • Despatch